Belt-buckle.



Y L. A. MYERS, JR.

BBLT BUOKLE. APPLICATION TILED NOV. 5, 1910.

1,025,99 1 Patented May 14, 1912.

INVENTOR:

LEWIS A. MYERS, JR., OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

BELT-BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1912.

Application filed November 5, 1910. Serial No. 590,796.

To all whom it may concern.

Be itknown that 1, Lewis A. MYERS, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belt-Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The present invention has reference, generally, to improvements in separable clasps; and, this invention relates, more particularly, to that class of clasps, the clasping members or elements of which are used with the more or less flimsy and flexible fabrics used as belts worn about the waists of women.

'The present invention has for its principal object to provide the separable clasps with means to which the free end-portions of the belt are suitably attached, said means being made in such a manner so that the flimsy and flexible belt-fabric will not wrinkle therein and, furthermore, to provide a clasp having such belt-retaining means upon the backs thereof which will not cause any discomfort when the belt has been secured about the body.

Other objects of this invention not at this time more particularly mentioned will be clearly understood from the following detailed description of the present invention.

With the several objects of the present in vention in view, the said invention consists, primarily, in the novel clasp hereinafter set forth; and, the invention consists, furthermore, in the novel arrangements and combinations of the several devices and parts, as well as in the details of the construction of the same, all of which will be more fully described in the following specification, and then finally embodied in the clauses of the claims which are appended to and which form an essential part of the said specification.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front face view of a clasp, showing one embodiment of the principles of the present invention, the clasp-plates being represented in their attached relation,

and illustrating in connection therewith, the end-portions of a belt which are connected with the respective clasp-plates; and Fig. 2 is a rear view of the parts illustrated in said Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a top edge view of the connected clasp-plates and Fig. 4 is a rear view of the said clasp-plates in their separated or disconnected relations.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the above described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to the said drawings, the reference-character 1 indicates a clasp made according to and embodying theprinciples of this invention, the same comprising a pair of plates 2 and 3 which may be of any ornamental marginal configuration and any suitable surface-o-rnamentation, said plates being provided upon their front faces with means for separably connecting them in their operative positions upon and agains the body of the wearer. One means of separably connecting the said plates consists of a number of holding or retaining hooks, as 4, which are forced or struck up out of the plate 2 and extend from the outer face of the same, and a corresponding number of hooks or tongues, as 5, which are forced or struck up out of the other plate 3 and extend outwardly from the outer face of said plate. Suitably arranged over each hook or tongue 4, and rigidly secured upon the said plate 2, or to said hook or tongue 4, by means of solder 6, is a suitably formed fastening or connecting means, as 7, the ring or eye-portion 8 of which is adapted to be detachably connected with a hook or tongue 5 of the plate 3, as will be clearly understood from an inspection of Fig. l of the drawings. The rear faces of the said plates 2 and 3 are provided with suitable means for attaching thereto the respective endportions 8 and 9 of the usual belt, said means being constructed in such a manner, so as to provide a retaining means which will cause the flimsy and flexible belt to conform to the waist-line of the body and will assume a smooth and neat relation to the body, said means preventing the belt from wrinkling and becoming folded upon itself.

The means, as will be seen more particularly from an inspection of Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings, is preferably made from wire, each retaining means consisting usually of two pieces having their free end-portions bent in downward directions, and suitably secured to the backs of said plates 2 and 3, preferably by means of solder. One of these pieces is indicated by the reference-character 11, lying near the vertical marginal edgeportion 12 of the plate, said piece or bar 11 having an angularly bent part 13, and the downwardly extending end-portions let and 1.5 of the piece or bar 11 being secured in place by means of the solder 16. The other piece of said belt-retaining means consists of an angularly bent part 17 arranged close to the angularly bent part 13, the downwardly extending portion 18 of said part 17 being secured to the back of the plate by means of solder 19. Connected with and extending forwardly from said part 17, near the upper marginal edge-portion 20 of the plate, and terminating at or near the outer marginal edge portion 21 f the said plate, is a straight bar 22, said bar 22 being connected by means of a curved end-portion 23 with another and an angularly disposed bar 24.. This bar 2 terminates at or near the free end-portion 15 of the piece or bar 11, said bar 241 having its downwardly extending free end-portion 25 secured to the back of the plate by means of solder 26. It will thus be evident from an inspection of said Figs. 2 and of the drawings, that the several pieces or bars, just described, will provide in connection with the rear face or back of each plate 2 and 8, a spring-like and harpshaped belt-retaining means, and to the respective pieces or bars 11 of which the re spective endportions 8 and 9 of the belt are suitably attached. To secure the bucklemembers to the end-portions of the belt, the end-portions 8 and 9 of the belt are arranged around the bars 11 and then sewed fast. Having thussecurcd the end-portions of the belt to the said bars 11 of the respective plates 2 and 3, the main portions of the belt are passed over the angularly disposed bars 2t, the upper marginal edge-portions 27 of the belt lying along the lower surface-por tions of the straight bars 22, in a manner substantially as represented in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

The result of this arrangement of the several parts of the belt-retaining means is that the plates can be used with very thin and flexible material, such as silk, the said bars 22 and the curved end-portions 23 preventing the belt from riding upwardly, when secured about the body of the wearer, so that the belt will at all times remain in a perfectly flat and neat relation with respect to the waist-line of the wearer, and a beltretaining means is provided which will maintain the belt in a smooth condition and will present any wrinkling of the belt or will prevent it from becoming folded upon itself.

I am fully aware that some changes may be made in the general arrangements and combinations of the several devices and parts, as well as in the details of the construction of the same, without departing from the scope of this invention as set forth in the foregoing specification, and as defined in the clauses of the claims which are appended to and which form an essential part of this specification. Hence, I do not limit my present inventicm to the exact arrangements and. combinations of the various devices and parts as described in the said specification, nor do .l confine myself to the exact details of the construction of the said parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

l claim:

1. clasp comprising a pair of plates provided with means for securing said plates in separable connection, and a harpshaped and spring-like belt-retaining device upon the back of each plate, to a portion of which an end-portion of the belt is attached, and with another part. of which the upper edge of a portion of the belt is adapted to be brought in retaining engagement to prevent. the \Yrll'll'x'llllg and folding over of the belt.

2. A clasp comprising a pair of plates, each plate being provided with means for securing said plates in separable connection, and a harp-shaped and spring-like belt-retaining device upon the back of each plate, consisting of a bar arranged near the vertical marginal edge-portions of the plate, said bar having downwardly extending end-portions secured to said back of the plate, a straight bar located near the upper marginal edgeportion of the plate and terminating near the outer marginal edge-portion of the plate, a curved end-portion connected with said straight bar, and an angularly disposed bar connected with said curved endportion, the other end-portion of said angularly disposed bar tern'iinat-ing near said first-mentioned bar located near the vertical marginal edge portion of the plate, said straight bar and said angularly disposed bar each having a. downwardly extending end portion secured to said back of the plate, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony, that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this lth day of November, 1910.

LEWIS A. MYERS, J n.

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